Chiricahua National Monument is a fee area,
but just before the entrance booth, there is a
road to the right. Follow this road a couple
miles and there are several primitive campsites.
Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42

Campsites on Pinery Canyon Road

Near the summit...

Between Chiricahua National Monument
and Paradise, Arizona

IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO
KNOW
WHAT FIRE RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT

Has anybody heard of a rattlesnake attacking
a vehicle? There was a rattlesnake in the road
and we pulled beside it to take a photo, then
he started attacking the car. This very aggressive
rattlesnake slammed into the car door several
times. Didn't get the best photograph, being
afraid he might come through the open window.

DIRECTIONS:
From Sunizona, Arizona take Hwy.181
Follow the signs to Chiricahua National Monument.
Just before you enter Chiricahua National Monument
Turn right on Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42
The first couple miles are private lands.
(Pinery Canyon Road continues through to Paradise)

From I-5 exit at Wilcox.
Take Hwy.186 south
Turn east on Hwy.181

The road towards Paradise, Arizona

ROAD CONDITIONS:
Pinery Canyon Road is a rough dirt road.
Some serious washboards the first couple miles.
If you continue all the way through to Paradise,
there are some washes and creeks you have to
transverse... Passenger cars can make it with
good weather and caution.

Perfect desert house...
Along road towards Paradise, Arizona

DISTANCES:
From Hwy.80 and Hwy.181
Chiricahua National Monument 26 miles

Drinking water at Chiricahua National Monument
(At the Visitor Center)

Geronimo Surrendered on Sept. 6th 1886
in Skeleton Canyon and forever ended Indian
warfare in the United States. Memorial erected
in 1934 by the city of Douglas.

RATTLESNAKE RANCH
We expected a pit full of rattlesnakes and
some crazy person... instead we found a
museum in the middle of the desert.

The Boneyard
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is home to thousands
of outdated planes and helicopters mothballed by the
United States Air Force and other allied forces. The 2,600
acre facility is the size of 1,300 football pitches and sprawled
across the desert in Tucson, Arizona and houses the 309th
Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)
This 60 year-old facility is America's only storehouse for
out-of-service aircraft.